Keeping Carrie blindfolded and in the dark as to his identity suits Major League catcher Jason Holder just fine while he figures out if being a Dom really is his thing. With the media circling like vultures as he works to get his career back on track, the last thing he needs is a sex scandal if things don't work out. Just when he's got it all under control a new kind of scandal from an unexpected source threatens everything, and Jason soon finds out that what you don't know can hurt you.

Inside Heat: Mustangs Baseball - Volume 1

Jeff "The Terminator" Holder is the closer for the Texas Mustangs' baseball team, and revered throughout the Major League for throwing inside heat. His twin brother, Jason, the Mustang's catcher, leads the League in hits. They share a love of the game, as well as their identical DNA - but that's not all they share. Pediatric Nurse Megan Long doesn't know baseball, but she does know a sexy guy when she sees one - or two.

Bases Loaded: Mustangs Baseball, Book 3

Antonio Ramirez is ready to leave his wild reputation behind in New York and adopt a more respectable life with the Texas Mustangs. When he spies the woman of his dreams at a Fundraiser-its love at first sight. Convincing Clare Kincaid that he's sincere is harder than he expected. Giving Clare what she wants could wreck his career and compromise his feelings for her. When super sexy Antonio Ramirez approaches her, Clare is sure he's playing a cruel game, but the Mustangs new Center Fielder won't take no for an answer.

Captive, Mine

I was as prepared as one could be when vanishing into the U.S. Marshal's Witness Protection Program. I just wasn't prepared for him.For ex-Navy SEAL turned mercenary Lake Freeman, escorting Lily Cross into the Witness Protection Program was just another job - until a better offer came along. Lake couldn't have cared less about the life he'd been hired to protect. After all, she was a part of the very organization that had cost him so much already. At least he never expected to care.

The Gilded Cage: Surrender, Book 2

Fenn Lockwood comes alive in the shadows. Though he might have physically survived the kidnapping that stole his childhood, the trauma and pain he lived through have marked him forever. Now the only place where Fenn can be himself is within the walls of his private BDSM world - a place of erotic obsession, where desire isn't just captured...it's bound.

Playing Dirty

Shaw Matthews plays to win, and he intends to snag a coveted partnership at San Diego's hottest sports agency by signing America's top athlete. Only one woman stands in his way: rival agent Cassidy Whalen. But eliminating the competition will be Shaw's pleasure when he concocts an ingenious plan to seduce Cassidy and show the beautiful ballbreaker who's the better man for the job. That is until Cassidy turns the tables - and their steamy encounters start breaking all the rules.

His Secretive Lover: The Thorpe Brothers, Book 3

Being the daughter of a famous art thief, Cricket has learned how to steal, lie, cheat, and get away with practically anything. She has the skills to sneak into a museum with the highest security and get away with no one the wiser. The problem is: She hates to steal, lie, and cheat. Her father is disappointed in her because she refuses to help him. Despite this tension, she's perfectly happy living a normal life as an accountant. Well, except for the occasional need for the adrenaline rush.

A Beautiful Idea: The Beautiful Series, Book 1

She grew up in a world filled with poverty and hatred from the person who gave birth to her and had decided she would finally make her ideas a reality. After moving away to college as a junior she ran into the University of Maryland's walking one-night stand. Literally.

Love Slave for Two

Nevvie Barton has never truly felt loved or like she belonged anywhere - ever. Abandoned by her adoptive family and trapped in an abusive relationship, she takes a job with Tyler Paulson and Thomas Kinsey as their cleaning girl. Nevvie knows her fantasies about "the boys" will always be just that - the two handsome men are devoted, loving life-partners. Then Tyler and Thomas fall in love with Nevvie and hatch a secret plan to seduce her and make her their permanent third.

His Unexpected Lover: The Thorpe Brothers, Book 2

Their eyes first met across a crowded Georgetown bar, and an unexpected magnetism kept them together. There with her friends, Kiera Ward never expected the handsome, debonair man to be attracted to her, but Axel Thorpe had eyes for no other. With common interests, goals, and an intense physical charisma, they quickly fell in love. But a careless and perhaps misunderstood proposal by Axel drove a wedge between them.

His Captive Lover: Thorpe Brothers, Book 1

She'd been arrested? Mia couldn't believe what was happening to her! How could the police accuse her of killing her ex-fiance?! She was a kindergarten teacher! But here she was, standing in front of the judge, her eyes wide with fear and confusion.

Into this chaos strode the largest, most handsome man she'd ever seen in her life! Ash Thorpe stepped into the courtroom and took charge, not just of her defense but of Mia's heart.

Falling for the Backup: Assassins Series, Book 3.5

After serving as a dutiful bridesmaid in the wedding from hell, Aynslee Shaw just wants to slink home to Nashville and forget the whole trip. That is until the hottest guy she's ever seen is seated next to her on the flight and charms her with his easy laugh and killer smile. But just when she thinks things are getting good, he vanishes, leaving Aynslee wondering, was that guy the one? And did she just let him slip through her fingers?

Empty Net: Assassins, Book 3

Audrey Parker is up against the boards. She's stuck in a job she hates and pining for a total jerk. Meanwhile, her sister Fallon is moving out and getting married to hockey star Lucas Brooks. Where is Audrey's Prince Charming? Nothing she does has ever seemed to be good enough for any of the men in her life. Audrey's about to hit rock bottom...until she wakes up next to Tate Odder.

Blue Lines: Assassins, Book 4

The instant Piper Allen sees Erik Titov, she wants him - wants his rock-hard body, sure, but the strength and mystery that lie behind that superstar hockey jock demeanor, too. So when he sidles up to her at a bar and slinks his arm around her waist, she's lost. What follows is the wildest night of her life…followed by inevitable heartbreak the next morning. And then, a few weeks later, a very big surprise: Two blue lines on a pregnancy test.

Night Games

The moment Grey Kelleher locks eyes with All-Star shortstop Chase Whitfield, she's a goner. For years she's watched him play on TV, and now she's gazing at his hard, lean body across a bar in her hometown. Grey's crush on Chase goes all the way back to his rookie season. So when she approaches him for an autograph, she's startled by what a jerk he can be. Chase is in no mood to humor his fans, even one as alluring as Grey. He's in the last year of his contract and stuck having to prove himself on a minor league team. He's only there to rehab an injury, nothing more.

Vicious Cycle

Deacon Malloy's life is dedicated to the Hell's Raiders motorcycle club. Tough, hard, and fast with his fists, he serves the group as sergeant at arms. But his devil-may-care approach to life is thrown for a loop when the five-year-old daughter he never knew existed lands on the club steps.

Melting the Ice: Play by Play, Book 7

Everything's coming together for budding fashion designer Carolina Preston. Only months away from having her own line, she could use some publicity. That's when her brother suggests his best friend as a model-hockey player Drew Hogan. Carolina and Drew already have a history-a hot one, back in college. Unforgettable for Carolina, but for Drew, just another slap shot. This time, though, it's different. His perfect body would be for professional use only. This time, she could use him.

Wicked White: Wicked White, Book 1

After his mother dies, rock star Ace White - lead singer of the red-hot band Wicked White - is done with the celebrity game. The phony people, the meaningless one-night stands: he doesn't want any of it anymore. Quitting in the middle of a sold-out tour, Ace sets out to find some place - any place - where he can be alone.

Trying to Score: Assassins Series, Book 2

Fallon Parker's dream has always been to turn her family's wine company into a runaway success and eventually start a cellar of her own. Since graduating from college, she has worked relentlessly to make that dream a reality, especially after taking a chance on love - and losing. By the time Fallon becomes an official sponsor of the Nashville Assassins, she feels like all her hard work is finally paying off. And then the man who broke her heart skates back into her life.

The Club: The Club Trilogy, Book 1

When playboy businessman Jonas Faraday receives a private note from the anonymous intake agent assigned to process his online application to an exclusive club, he becomes obsessed with finding her and giving her the satisfaction she claims has always eluded her, in order to fulfill his own desperate need for redemption.

The Reluctant Dom

Kaden's dying, but before he goes he has one problem to solve - he must ask his oldest and dearest friend, Seth, to take over as Dom and Master to his beloved wife, Leah. Seth has always seen himself as the perpetual screwup and Kaden as the strong and steady one, so his friend's request rocks his world. He also knows there's no way he can refuse Kaden this.

Worth the Chance: MMA Fighter, Book 2

Liv Michaels is almost there. She's smart, determined and weeks away from landing the job she's dreamed about for years. Time healed old wounds, even her broken heart from the devastation of being crushed by her first love. Vince "The Invincible" Stone is every woman's fantasy...strong, sexy, confident, and completely in control. Growing up surrounded by chaos, he's learned never to get too attached. Love will drag you down. He adores women, treats them well, puts their own needs before his own...for the night anyway.

Feeling Hot

It's been a rough month for Navy SEAL Cash McCoy. Fresh off six months of celibacy during his deployment, he almost got into a hot blonde's panties before they were interrupted. Since then he still hasn't gotten laid. The reason? He lost her number. And no other woman has replaced her face in his fantasies. Then his CO asks him to keep an eye on his sister for a few weeks. Just until her psycho-stalker ex is transferred.

Game For Love: Bad Boys of Football 1

In a relationship built on lies...the only truth is their feelings for each other. In Game for Love, by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Bella Andre, to fulfill his grandmother's dying wish, linebacker Cole Taylor must find and marry a good girl. First grade teacher Anna Davis fits the bill perfectly. Their deal is simple: If she'll be his temporary wife, he'll give her more pleasure than she ever imagined was possible. Only, love is the ultimate game-changer.

Publisher's Summary

Keeping Carrie blindfolded and in the dark as to his identity suits Major League catcher Jason Holder just fine while he figures out if being a Dom really is his thing. With the media circling like vultures as he works to get his career back on track, the last thing he needs is a sex scandal if things don't work out. Just when he's got it all under control a new kind of scandal from an unexpected source threatens everything, and Jason soon finds out that what you don't know can hurt you.

The story is about Jason Holder, an older professional baseball player, coming to terms with his sexual preference to dominate a woman and learning what he likes and the how-tos of that scene. His lessons began by way of his friend, Todd, introducing him to a local sex club, The Dungeon, where Jason could practice and learn about "the lifestyle." Todd connects Jason with a friend of his sub named Carrie. Carrie is a journalist focusing on a story of steroid usage in sports. She is inexperienced in BDSM too, having had 2 past sex partners and having acted as a sub only once when she joined her friend and her friend’s dom, Todd. So both Jason and Carrie were novices to “the lifestyle.”

To keep things between them limited to their dom-sub relationship after hours, all of Jason's and Carrie's first encounters occurred at The Dungeon sex club. And to keep his anonymity, Jason insisted that their first encounters occur with Carrie blindfolded. No preliminary checks for diseases occurred before they started to have sex without a condom. This was especially strange when the author then began to have Jason use a condom near the end of the story. So the author was not consistent in her portrayals. Their sub-dom relationship was uninteresting since the sex was boring to me. Jason seemed to use any excuse to “punish” her. Though, he was also attentive and caring in some ways. But since this was a bad story with a bad narrator, it didn’t matter b/c the bad outweighed any small amount of good in the story and narration. Though the story was a FSG (Fifty Shades of Grey) copy-cat, it had some different parts. One is how they made their way to actual intercourse. Another is how he wrote on her with a marker to literally “mark” her as his and some foot play. But it didn’t matter b/c I don’t know if I’ve ever been sooooo bored by sex scenes in a story. For me, that’s saying something because I have listened to a lot of romance and erotica. But, with this story, I quickly began to fast forward through the vast majority of sex action in this story, and it was a lot.

When not having sex, the parts of their lives shown outside of “The Dungeon” were very limited and always apart from each other. So, for Jason, listeners heard about him playing baseball and, occasionally, talking to his brother and his brother’s wife, a woman both of them used to have sex with together. His brother was a baseball player too. And for Carrie, we heard about her working on her steroid story.

This story fell into the common trap of love or something like it being said to be present way too soon. Lust and attraction, even very strong lust, makes sense in this story. But in this story, after engaging in only sexual acts—not always intercourse—4 times, both Jason and Carrie began to contemplate how much they cared about each other and how much they felt cared for by the other. By that time, they didn’t even know each other’s names or who each person was outside of The Dungeon. Neither had they been together in any way but sexually or even talked about anything outside of sex. In other words, they, in no way, even remotely knew each other.

This story focused more on Jason, so the way the author chose to describe Jason’s vulnerability near the end of the book was disconcerting. It was so different from how Jason was shown to be prior to that point that it didn’t make any sense. The change and supposed revelation had no real basis. That seemed to be a major struggle in the book, the author’s inability to have information flow in an order that makes sense. At different points in the story, info would be dropped and the timing of it would seem strange and would’ve been better placed after or before something else already revealed.

The story was very mediocre, but the narrator was horrible. She ruined this already mediocre story. The narrator said everything so matter-of-factly that it didn’t work well for the many sex scenes and the great amount of sex talk. It all came across as bland. But worst of all is that the narrator sounded like Marcie, from Charlie Brown, the character who says “sir” at the end of every sentence. Her narration, especially of Carrie, since she always saying “sir,” took this mediocre story to the crap pile.

Since I thoroughly enjoyed the 1st book, I was looking forward to the 2nd in this series about major league baseball players. In Inside Heat, twin brothers Jeff and Jason have an 18 month relationship with Megan. The twins treated Megan with gentleness and respect until Jeff & Megan fell in love, leaving Jason alone.

In Going Deep, Jason changes into a self-absorbed, sadistic asshole who enjoys inflicting pain. This transformation starts when a Dom friend offers to share his Sub for a night. When Jason agrees to batter and abuse a woman he just met, a controlling jerk is born. And don't get me started on the "friend" who pimped out his girlfriend. What a prince!

Jason is introduced to Carrie, a supposedly intelligent, professional woman, who has no self respect or common sense. What rational person would allow a total stranger complete control of her physical, mental and emotional health? It was painful listening as Carrie volunteers to be degraded and humiliated.

It was also creepy hearing Jason rationalize his abusive behavior because "other people are doing it too: In our modern world, overrun with terrorists, serial killers, rapists and pedophiles, does the lame excuse "everyone else is doing it" really justify bad behavior? Even though Carrie is a willing victim, I'm appalled when exploiting people is trivialized.

Needless to say, I did not finish or enjoy this book, wishing I could clean my mind of the disturbing images. While I realize there are many more graphic novels on this subject, this attempt to portray Jason as a romantic hero is scary.

As the first book (Inside Heat) i listened to by Roz Lee i thoroughly enjoyed this listen. This story is about Jason and his new found Submissive Carrie. It is a very mild B&D story that has loads of yummy sex in it. Jason is pure Hot dominant male and i like his sexy voice that is portrayed well by Abigail Cooper's narration. Roz has an easy flowing style to her writing that i find irresistible. I'm so looking forward to more stories from the Mustangs Baseball series and hope there are many more to come.

This book isn't a literary masterpiece, and it isn't gut wrenching, and it isn't suspenseful, it is what it is. It's a bit fluffy, not much depth, but it's got some heat to it.

I actually liked this book because it wasn't deep..contrary to the title. There was a bit of contrived drama, and odd behavioral changes just for the sake of continuing the story, but when you are looking for a book that has some heat, but isn't way out there with the hokey and isn't edge of your seat suspenseful, this one will fit the bill nicely.

This is book 2, but it could be a stand alone. Jason is the catcher on a MLB team and in the last book he and his twin brother shared a woman, who eventually became his brother's wife. That was fine with Jason, he didn't really feel that way about her...actually he has a hard time feeling much for a woman because he tends to be overbearing, demanding, and basically domineering, but he thinks that shows he cares...and the women he has been with really aren't into it. When he confides in a teammate about his women troubles his teammate takes him to a club...a BDSM club...so Jason can explore his inner Dom...and boy does he!

This book isn't hard core BDSM, but it's a nice story with enough steam to make you smile.

As for the narrator....grrrrrrr....this chick always gets on my nerves. She doesn't have much inflection, it's hard to tell one person talking from the next person, and she speaks at about 0.5 speed, and sounds like a 13 year old girl while doing it. Not REALLY what you want to hear during a steam scene. Overall though I think the book overcomes the narrator's short comings.

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